Confessing Sin

When people hear confessing your sins they think of monks in a monastery or stepping into a formal confessional at the end of mass. However, God’s Word teaches us that confession is an important practice for everyone’s daily lives.

What does the Holy Bible say about confession?

We all make promises we know we can't keep, sign contracts we're unsure we can uphold. Throughout his life, David made contracts and promises that eventually fell apart. It wasn't until he turned his life over to God that he understood the true difference between these contracts and a covenants of God.


In this post, David discusses these differences.

One Way to Grace provides readers an insight into how trust and faith in the Holy Spirit radically alerted the path of David's life. The fruits, or gifts, of the Spirit are laid out clearly both in the life experiences of believers and indelibly within Scripture.

In this post David has asked his wife, Gay, to discuss with us the Fruits of the Spirit.

When people hear confessing your sins they think of monks in a monastery or stepping into a formal confessional at the end of mass. However, God’s Word teaches us that confession is an important practice for everyone’s daily lives.

What does the Holy Bible say about confession?

REPENTANCE

The word repentance means deep sorrow; regret for any past action, wrongdoing, conviction of the heart, or sinful ways. A sincere turning away in both mind and heart from mans sinful ways to God.

To repent in relation to salvation is to change your mind from rejection of Jesus Christ to the faith of Jesus Christ, to recognize that He is indeed "Lord and Saviour".

And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
-Mark 1:15

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
-Romans 12:2

All the Prophets, apostles and even Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ called for repentance.

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
-Matthew 4:17

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
-Luke 5:32

 The goodness of God leads us to repentance.

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
-Romans 2:4

By Gods Love and great Mercy, when we  repent, believe in Jesus Christ alone and what He did for us at the cross of Calvary. God then is able to restore that relationship with Himself  by His Grace, leading us to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, to continue to guide us into all truth ,the renewing of our minds through Gods word, personal relationship in prayer, and the inwardly and outwardly changing of our lives. A person who has truly repented from the rejection of Christ to faith in Jesus Christ will give evidence of a changed heart, mind and life showing the love of God.

     

With Blessing in Christ,

David & Gay

https://www.onewaytograce.com/

FORGIVENESS

What is Forgiveness by God?
Mankind has a sinful nature. Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden, and humans have been sinning against God ever since.
God Almighty provided a way for us to be forgiven, and that way is through His only beloved Son Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Jesus confirmed that in no uncertain terms when he said:

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
-John 14:6 King James Version

God’s plan of salvation was to send Jesus, His only Son, into the world as a sacrifice for our sins. Because of our sinful nature, we cannot repair our broken relationship with God on our own. Moreover, that sacrifice had to be perfect and spotless. Only Jesus Christ was qualified to do that for us. During the last supper Jesus said:

For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
-Matthew 26:28 King James Version

 Why do we have to forgive others?

We cannot hold grudges, bitterness, or seek revenge because when we do it only eats away at us, the feeling of tumult and pain on the inside just keeps getting worse, leaving us resentful, hard-hearted. The longer we refuse, the more unwilling we become to forgive. We are to trust God for justice and forgive the other person who offended us.

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
-Matthew 6:14-15 King James Version

In order for us to be forgiven we must forgive others, which then releases us from all resentfulness, bitterness and ill feeling and gives us freedom from the pain inside and leads to peace in our hearts.

With Blessing in Christ,

David & Gay

https://www.onewaytograce.com/

The Oneness of God

There is one God. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three coeternal Persons. God is immortal, all powerful, all knowing, above all, and ever present. He is infinite and beyond human comprehension. He is forever worthy of worship, adoration, and service by the whole creation.

The Godhead

Scripture tells us that there is one God:

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
-Deuteronomy 6:4 (KJV)

Scripture also says that the Father is God.

But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
-1 Corinthians 8:6 (KJV)

Scripture also says that the Son/Christ is God

I and my Father are one.
-John 10:30 (KJV)

Scripture also says that the Holy Spirit is God.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
-Genesis 1:2 (KJV)

These Person's, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, constitute the Godhead.

Godhead- Old Testament

The divine summons in Genesis

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
-Genesis 1:26 (KJV)

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever:
-Genesis 3:22 (KJV)

This has often been understood to have the Godhead in view.


Isaiah 63 presents three divine Persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.

Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?

Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
-Isaiah 63:8,11,16 (KJV)

Godhead- New Testament

In the New Testament the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are presented as distinct Persons, but as One God.

 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
-1 John 5:7 (KJV)

Jesus prayed to the Father and asked for the Comforter (Holy Spirit) indicating three Persons functioning as One.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever;
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
-John 14:16,18,20,26  (KJV)

When Jesus was baptised in the River Jordon by John the Baptist, this is a clear picture of the Godhead, God speaking, Spirit of God descending like a dove (Holy Spirit), and Jesus coming up straightway out of the water.

And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
-Matthew 3:16,17 (KJV)

Note below that the Baptism takes place not in the names, but in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
-Matthew 28:19 (KJV)

This implies that while the Persons of the Godhead are distinct, they are indissolubly united in essence and nature: Therefore it is evident that in God's substance there are three Persons, in which the One God is recognized.

With Blessing in Christ,

David & Gay

https://www.onewaytograce.com/